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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

501–600

The Sixth Century

1 work

c. 552; survives in Syriac

Greek, surviving in Syriac

The Arbiter

Diaitetes

John Philoponus · c. 490 – c. 570

An attempt to settle Chalcedon by defining the terms philosophically: nature means a particular thing, not a general kind, so two natures would mean two individuals. Pressed to its conclusion by his opponents, the same logic made the Trinity three particulars.

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